Fort Union Historic Resource Study

1. Sheridan to SOW, June 26, 1886, LR, AGO, RG 94, NA.

2. McKeever to Miles, Oct. 3, 1889, & Kelton to Miles, Oct. 30, 1889, LS, AGO, RG 94, NA; and Miles to AG, Oct. 17, 1889, LR, ibid.

3. McCook to SOW, Dec. 18, 1890, & endorsements, & McCook to AG, Feb. 4, 1891, & endorsements, LR, AGO, RG 94, NA.

4. Special Orders No. 19, Feb. 12, 1891, HQ Dept. of Arizona, & Orders No. 12, Feb. 18, 1891, HQ FU, AC; and Whittemore to AAG Dept. of Arizona, Feb. 12, 1891, TS, FU, USAC, RG 393, NA.

5. Kelton to CO FU, Feb. 19, 1891, TR, FU, USAC, RG 393, NA.

6. Las Vegas Optic, Feb. 21, 1891.

7. Ibid., Feb. 27, 1891.

8. Ibid., Feb. 20, 1891.

9. The reminiscences of "Old Fogy," published in July 1891, were included in chapter 2.

10. The three enlisted men of the 6th Cav. were sent to Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, on Feb. 27. Orders No. 15, Feb. 26, 1891, HQ FU, FU Orders, USAC, RG 393, NA.

11. Orders No. 21, April 5, 1891, HQ FU, FU Orders, USAC, RG 393, NA.

12. Orders No. 24, May 12, 1891, & Orders No. 25, May 14, 1891, HQ FU, Fort Union Orders, USAC, RG 393, NA; Chaffee to AAG Dept. of Arizona, Mar. 20, 1891, LR, OIG, RG 159, NA; Post Returns, Fort Union, Feb.-April 1891, & Medical History, Fort Union, Feb.-April 1891, AGO, RG 94, NA; Corbin to CO FU, April 10, 1891, TR, FU, USAC, RG 393, NA; and Shollenberger to AAG Dept. of Arizona, April 14, 1891, LS, FU, USAC, RG 393, NA.

13. Shollenberger to CO, Co. H, 10th Inf., May 9, 1891, ibid.; and Corbin to AG, May 16, 1891, TR, AGO, RG 94, NA.

14. Patten to QMG, June 3, 1892, JAG Reservation Files, Fort Union, RG 153, NA.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Chaffee to AAG Dept. of Arizona, June 13, 1892, ibid.

19. Batchelder to Adm. of Estate of Butler, Mar. 5, 1894, & CQM Dept. of the Colorado to QMG, April 5, 1894, ibid.

20. Russell, Land of Enchantment, 141-142.

21. Ibid., 27, 142.

22. Ibid., 143.

23. Liping Zhu, Fort Union National Monument: An Administrative History (Santa Fe: National Park Service Southwest Region, Division of History, 1992), 14.

24. Ibid., 15-26.

25. Las Vegas Optic, Jan. 30, 1954.

26. Zhu, Fort Union National Monument, 27-29, 33-40, 62-64.

27. Albuquerque Journal, May 14, 1991. The author of this study was a guest at the ceremony.